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by yucky 1296 days ago

    > They seem to be way less opposed for government to bail out corporations from same tax money tho.
Not really. We had nationwide Occupy protests about exactly that, from both sides of the aisle. Not only leftists were fed up, but it also spawned the Tea Party movement on the right.
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Occupy was largely a Leftist movement. And while the Tea Party was created then by Ron Paul, the political machinery that swept into Federal government seats was only after Obama won in 2008. The Tea Party as an entity is completely different between the pre-Obama and post-Obama eras.